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America, Empire of Liberty: A New History

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Description for America, Empire of Liberty: A New History Paperback. It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' This title takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and its paradoxes. Num Pages: 704 pages, 16pp b/w inset. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 510.
It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' In the first new one-volume history in two decades, David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and its paradoxes. He examines how the anti-empire of 1776 became the greatest superpower the world has seen, how the country that offered liberty and opportunity on a scale unmatched in Europe nevertheless founded its prosperity on the labour of black slaves and the dispossession of the Native Americans. He explains how these tensions between empire and ... Read more

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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141033679
SKU
V9780141033679
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About Dr David Reynolds
David Reynolds, FBA, is Professor of International History at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Christ's College. He is the author or editor of ten books on aspects of twentieth-century history, including One World Divisible: A Global History since 1945 (2000) and In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War (2004) which was awarded the Wolfson ... Read more

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